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Dr Osman Ahmed is a Kurdish-British artist from Iraq who has been exhibited in galleries across Europe and the Middle East, including the Tate Britain and the Imperial War Museum. He has been described as "one of Kurdistan’s best-known artists" by The Economist.

Ahmed was exhibited as part of Kurdish arts charity Gulan's 'Road through Kurdistan' exhibition at the P21 Gallery in London's Euston in October 2019.

In 2017, one of Ahmed's works was installed on a wall in Reaya hill, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. In 2017 Ahmed also received the IAGS Prize for the Arts from the International Association of Genocide Scholars, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

In 2008, Ahmed was exhibited as part of the Displaced exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. In 2014, Ahmed featured in an exhibition to raise awareness and funds for the Kurds of Syria who were fighting against ISIS.

Ahmed told Arab Weekly that "Most of my drawings come from memory and my experience as a witness to the years of political and cultural repression, culminating in the horrendous event in 1988 (the Anfal) that left a profound effect on my life”.

Ahmed is a researcher at the Kurdology Centre for Kurdish Studies, University of Sulaymaniyah. He is a graduate of the Institute of Art in Sulaymaniyah-Iraq (1985), and received an MA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Arts, London (2007). He also documented the Al-Anfal genocide of Saddam Hussein against Kurdish civilians in line drawings as part of a PhD undertaken in London in 2013.

Ahmed was born in 1962 and grew up in the neighbourhood of Chwar Bakh in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Like many Kurds, he refused to participate in the Iran-Iraq War and fled into the mountains to join Kurdish militias. Ahmed joined the PUK Peshmerga but told the military leaders that he could not kill anybody and had never held a gun. Ahmed told Medya Magazine, "It wasn’t easy at first, some of the other peshmerga’s were unable to understand why I did not want to hold a gun but many of the officials appreciated and respected the art I had done previously, from this they gave me a lot of freedom to express myself through art whilst in the mountains."